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San Francisco's Got Free Wi-Fi

Posted by timothy on from the leave-your-heart-and-brain dept.

Carpoolio writes "If you're living in San Francisco, chances are you can connect, for free, to the BARWN -- the Bay Area Research Wireless Network. BARWN broadcasts an 802.11 signal from the top of a big hill near San Francisco, and anyone with a clear sight line to the signal can connect. Another set of wireless nodes are being placed around town by SFLan, making Wi-Fi available to tens of thousands of people."

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  1. The Nodes: First Poest by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Hear the towers with the nodes
    Wifi nodes!
    What a world of merriment their melody forebodes!
    How they ping, ping, ping,
    In the icy net of night!
    While the stars that overspring
    All the heavens, seem to sing,
    With a crystalline delight;
    Keeping time, time, time,
    In a sort of Runic rhyme,
    To the tintinnabulation that so musically downloads
    From the nodes, nodes, nodes, nodes,
    Nodes, nodes, nodes -
    From the jingling and the pinging of the nodes.

    I'm Edgar Allen Poe, and I approve this message because it's time to take our bandwidth back.